Lord of the Reins: The Complete Mount Collecting Guide

Welcome to Kittay's guide of mount collecting in WoW! This is a guide for those who want a complete and updated overview of all the available mounts in-game. I figured that with this setup and layout, it might be easy even for the novice collector to keep track of the mount cluster. I hope that this will help you on your way «to rule them, to find them, to bring them all and in the darkness bind them» and to become a true Lord of the Reins!

The initial idea that gave life to this guide was my desire to get as many mounts as possible, which is why I started to make a list of my own to keep track of what I had and didn't. In my research I soon realized the Completionist guide here on Wowhead was outdated, and as I posted and read comments on the achievement and guide pages I decided that it was time to make a new guide with all of the mounts that are available at the moment. The result is this guide, that will show you the mounts you can collect to reach that prestigious Lord of the Reins, and be rewarded your Heavenly Azure Cloud Serpent accordingly!

Your achievement counter and mount collection tab will show different numbers. This is because the achievement tracker only includes the mounts that the current character can use. This covers faction, level, riding skill, profession skill, class and certain PvP mounts. Because of that, I advice you to have an alliance paladin (because of its now 7 paladin-only mounts, and the Treadblade if you haven't bought it).

The Horde-only and Alliance-only mounts are equivalent. You will not get a higher count if you have a Horde-side mount and obtain their Alliance 'twin'. This goes for all mounts that are faction or class-specific and have an opposite faction counterpart. Think of your Horde and Alliance mounts as two parallel but separate collecting pools.

Mount collecting tips:

You can use addons like Collect Me to keep track of your mounts in game, track via Warcraft Mounts, or simply visit your character's page in the Armory and check your mounts tab there.

Don't go to camp rares if you want to get new mounts fast. Start out with the class and city faction mounts, then see what you can craft/buy on AH and get from achievements, dungeon and raid drops. Some neutral factions that offer to sell mounts at exalted are also easy to farm rep with.

Position your alts outside of dungeons/raids, at daily quest givers or in rare spawn locations to save travel time in your farming.

As you can see, 35 out of all the mounts require real money. This means you won't have to spend $$ to reach your goal. However, it's still a fast way to get the last few mounts you might need.

Stay motivated! Get a nice routine for your grind and remember to have fun while you play.

With that said - let's get started, and good luck to you all!

Maximum mounts available: 412*

*The number is calculated for a single character. The highest amount is reached with a paladin (alliance, if you haven't got the dreadwheel on horde).

Vendored Mounts (19/20)

You can buy these mounts without reputation, but some of them will still have a discount if you have rep with the faction. The prices below refer to full price. Alliance players are able to buy a Champion's Treadblade to even out, since the Horde won the Azeroth Choppers competition and players were awarded with Warlord's Deathwheel (no longer obtainable).

Class specific mounts (6)

WORK IN PROGRESS. As you may or may not already know, there used to be a few priviliged classes who had their own exclusive mounts, but since patch 7.2, ALL classes have their own flying mount. As mentioned before, class mounts only count on a character that can ride the mount. This means that while it is possible to obtain a lot of different class specific mounts they don't count on all of your characters.

Death Knights can get two different mounts and are the only ones to have their own flying one.

There are a total of 8 unique paladin "leveling" mounts, although only two of them can count toward the achievement at a time. In this category I haven't accounted for the paladin mount Argent Charger, which you'll find under the Argent Tournament tab. The mounts you can get depend on the race of your paladin:

This mount will change color depending on your specialization: air/grey for Enhancement, fire/orange for Elemental and water/blue for Restoration.

Two beautiful demon horsies for you! Beauty tip: with the help of the drop The Codex of Xerrath and after completing the following Warlock-only missions you can choose to make all of your fire abilities fel green, including the flames on your pretty and cute little ponies!

This mount will change color depending on your specialization: grey for Fury, purple for Protection, red for Arms.

Professions Mounts (27)

Some of the mounts below can only be mounted by characters that have a certain profession level. Regardless of this, all mounts that you have obtained through professions will still count towards the achievement on any of your characters.

Robots and choppers and stuff - all available to buy from other players or just craft yourself. Note that the flying machines require an engineer at a skill of 300 and 375 to learn.

All reagents can easily be traded or bought in the auction house, except the following two:For the World Spinner and Rocket you will need 3 x Orb of Mystery for each. These orbs aren't soulbound but they go for each (vendor), so prepare to sink some gold.To craft the Sky Golem you need 30 x Jard's Peculiar Energy Source. This has a daily cooldown so remember it will take you at least 30 days to craft this yourself.

Time for some shiny Jewelcrafting mounts! Any character at level 40 and with Journeyman Riding can use these mounts, but all of the recipes are soulbound and require reputation with Order of the Cloud Serpent to buy.

You can solve these two mounts if you have the secondary profession Archaeology. One trick to get many fossil and Tol'vir fragments, without having to go all over Azeroth to get the right dig sites, is to solve Mantid puzzles in Pandaria. Read more

It may or may not take a long time to discover the mounts (especially the Quiraji, I would know...), but I find this to be the fastest way to do it. Meanwhile, you can get some cool BoA-weapons and achievements from solving the Mantid puzzles!

This mount created with Alchemy makes you able to transform into a dragon and carry a friend on your back.It can be traded with other players and is usable by any player. To craft it yourself you need to have both alchemy and archaeology on your character (recipe binds on pickup).

There are now three four mounts you can get from Fishing and three of them are related to your Fishing Shack. Wowhead's Garrison Fishing Rack Guide is a really good guide that helps you understand how to get the mounts. I have tried to make a shorter version of what's written there. Read

The Cavedwellers also have a chance to drop Nat's Lucky Coin that are used to buy the the water strider mount. Other than getting them from the cavedwellers or just fishing them up in your garrison, you can also accept quests from Nat to fish up "lunkers" in Draenor waters, and be rewarded you with a coin.

On the Broken Shore we have a fisherman called Conjurer Margoss. Fish up Drowned Mana from the pool on Margoss' Retreat and turn in to him to get reputation. When you reach honored you should start saving up for a rather cute water-only fish mount!

Achievement rewards (38)

I have divided the mounts into four different groups to make it an easier overview. Some mounts that are rewards from achievements are not included here, but fear not! You will find them under other topics that I found more suitable than this one.

This one is rather easy; use the Premade Group Finder to search for an already existing group or assemble one yourself, then get on achieving! (I never said all of the achievements where easy, though.)

To get these mounts you are required to collect other mounts, which makes them more of a bonus for your hard work rather than anything else (so when you have collected 200 mounts, you actually have 201). What mounts to collect is a free choice, except for obtaining Awake the Drakes, where you will need to collect nine specific drakes.

Calendar Event Mounts (15)

Keep an eye on your calendars, folks, because there is a whole bunch of mounts that you can get from the various events that take room in this game! Some of them are drops and require some luck, but you also have others that you can buy with currency, collected items - or even from other players on the Auction House. All events take place during 1-3 weeks, so make sure to start collecting in time if you want to be sure to get enough tokens before the time is out. For accurate dates you can visit Wowhead's information page and Battlenet's page about in-game events.

To obtain the mount below you will need to enter the portal Edge of Reality that spawns in level 100 areas. Once you enter the portal you will queue for a scenario in which you will find Voidtalon Egg. Click it, and the mount is yours!

"To obtain Reins of the Long-Forgotten Hippogryph, you have to find out and click to 5 Ephemeral Crystal faster than other players. Crystals located in Azsuna and spawn at once in random points. I know about 5 spots atm, people said they found more. Dont sure about respawn timer, seems it's higher than 3 hours.When crystals spawn and you click any of them, you got buffed by Crystal Dummy Aura 1, 2, 3 etc and now have 8 hrs to find other ones. Player, who will first find out all 5 crystals obtains the mount, all crystals disapper. Next round.If you die, you have to collect all 5 crystals again =/

With patch 7.1 came the opportunity to capture cute Falcosaur hatchlings and train them to become your mount (I know, it's awesome). To be able to capture the pets you will need to have their respective World Quest up and kill the Matriarch. After she's dead, an Orphaned Hatchling will spawn in a set location. Talk to it, give it the correct fruit and they're yours!

Once you have the pets, summon them to recieve the first quest in the questline. You can only complete one quest per day, and if you do so you will have a mount after 7 days!

PvP mounts (23)

These are mounts that require some PvP activity to get. Remember to check which mounts you can use on all characters and which you can not (RBG and Arena mounts), to make sure you learn them on your mount collecting one.

To interact with the mammoth vendor the Horde will need to be in control of Wintergrasp.

These two talbuks can be bought for tokens collected from PvP battles in Nagrand (Outland). You earn the battle tokens by killing Alliance players in the battle of Halaa, and while your faction controls the town you can trade in 10 x Oshu'gun Crystal Powder Sample for 1 research token. Note that you also can obtain the tokens by successfully completing the garrison mission Mysteries of Lok-rath.

These mounts are only rideable by the character who learned them. Once you have obtained the mount item you can easily mail it to your preferred character.When you win 40 rated battlegrounds or 100 3v3 arena battles you will recieve an item that you can redeem for 6 different mounts..

To interact with the mammoth vendor the alliance will need to be in control of Wintergrasp.

These two talbuks can be bought for tokens collected from PvP battles in Nagrand (Outland). You earn the battle tokens by killing Horde players in the battle of Halaa, and while your faction controls the town you can trade in 10 x Oshu'gun Crystal Powder Sample for 1 research token. Note that you also can obtain the tokens by successfully completing the garrison mission Mysteries of Lok-rath.

The Zandalari Warbringers are rare elites that are spread all over Pandaria, but have fixed spawn locations that you can camp. There's a total of three different Warbringers who all have a chance to drop an individual version of the dino mount.

Some mounts are obtained through looted items, either immediately or after a certain amount of days (hatching items). Please not that the items below do not guarantee a mount, but have a chance to contain one.Detailed information

In Sholazar Basin you can find the little creatures that are part of the faction The Oracles, which you can gain reputation with through daily quests. When you're Revered with these guys, you can buy a Mysterious Egg from Geen. If you keep this egg in your bag it will hatch after 3 days and become a Cracked Egg, from which you will have a chance to get Green Proto-Drake! The drop chance is about 5%, but it doesn't take too long to get with a bit of luck. Meanwhile, you can get 4 new companions to your collection (if you have one)! Note that you can only have one egg on you at a time.

In 7.2 Blizzard added 'Paragon level' to the Broken Isles faction system, which allows you to gain reputation above Exalted. For each 10.000 paragon reputation you gain with a faction you will receive a box, an exalted supply reward, that has a chance to drop a mount. In 7.3 you can also get paragon mounts from Army of the Light.

Lich King: Argent Tournament (15)

Below are all the mounts related to the Wrath of the Lich King activities of the Argent Tournament. Put simply, this is about grinding dailies in Northrend. The information is very brief, so I recommend you to visit the Championing the Argent Tournament guide to get the hang of it all. The bottomline is that getting all of these mounts require patience and dedication if you want to get them relatively fast.Read more:

The next step is to become the champion of a faction. You do this by collecting and turning in 25 Valiant's Seal for each faction, in total 5, which means that in total you will need to collect 125 Valiant's Seal in order to get all of the mounts below.

After you have become a champion for a faction you can start collecting Champion's Seals daily, while simultaneously championing for the remaining factions you may have left. You can get a total of 17 per day, if you have unlocked all the daily quests and if you make sure to clear Trial of the Champion.

Warlords: Garrison mounts (15)

For those who joined this marvellous game in Legion - your Garrison is part of the Warlords of Draenor expansion and is thus built and located in Draneor. I advise you to complete this project since you can obtain quite a few mounts from it.

If you choose to build Stables Level 1 (large plot building) in your garrison, you will be able to hunt down and tame various Draenor native beasts. All mounts require a chain of quests to complete before you can get it, which start in your stables. After you have completed all chains you will be awarded the achievement Master of Mounts. View Wowhead's Guide to the Garrison Stables for more detailed information. All the mounts you get from your stables will remain if you decide to remove the building, and can be ridden by any of your characters!

There are two modifier items that spawn on the ground of your stables, when you use them the mounts-in-training targets will be harder to defeat. If you defeat all six targets with the effect active, you will recieve an achievement which rewards you with a mount:

Real Money Mounts (38)

This is the part where you will need to chip in real money from your own or someone elses account. I have put the prices stated on the Blizzard store mounts, while I haven't on the TCG mounts and the bear, since their price tags can vary a lot.

You get all of these from the Battle.net Shop. Make sure to keep an eye on your desktop application or the website to see time- limited offers and mounts! During sales these usually go for 50% of the price.

When you have recruited a friend to join World of Warcraft, they have to purchase a full copy of the game and pay for 2 months of game time before you can recieve a mount. After that, you can choose from one of the 5 mounts (you'll have to recruit 5 friends in total to get them all).

These cards can be bought with online services or from other players in-game. Do a Google-search to find auctions, try at Ebay or check out Wowhead's TCG guide and WoW TCG Loot. Remember to only buy products from trusted sources - Blizzard can not be held responsible in fraud situations.

Black Market Auction House (4 unique)

Some of the mounts you've come across in this guide are available in another way: to be won in the Black Market Auction House. Below I have made a list of all of these mounts (only accounted for in their respective group above). There are also a four mounts that you can only get here, stated in the tab.

These mounts were previously removed from the game, but now they can be obtained again - only from the Black Market Auction House.

Please make your voice heard in the comments section if you would like me to update the guide with maps for entrances and spawn locations.2017/02/27: Added the Illdari Felstalker to the Real Money > Promos tab (because I had for some reason forgotten about that...).2017/03/07: Added Brawler's Burly Basilisk under the Miscellaneous > Legion tab. 2017/03/30: Updated with 7.2 mounts.2017/04/13: Added Riddler's Mind-Worm under the Miscellaneous > Legion tab2017/09/04: All available 7.3 have been added. I have also added the new Battle.net shop mount Luminous Starseeker under Real Money Mounts.2017/09/26: Corrected info under Class mounts. 2018/02/18: Added Shu-zen, the Divine Sentinel under Battle.net Shop.

Comments

Comment by Kunstfieber

This guide is just perfect.Thank you so much for your hard work, effort and time spent.

Comment by spinachlord

This is one of the greatest and most in-depth guides I have seen on this site!

Here's hoping it reaches the top of the vanity-collection-guide ratings. You've earned it.

Comment by Kittay

Thank you for visiting! I hope this guide will come in handy. Please tell me if you find any errors, if there's anything you're missing or if you think something should be moved or changed. I would also love for you to rate the guide if you found it useful. ❤

Meanwhile I will do my best to keep this guide up to date.

Happy hunting!

~Kittay

Comment by AretroHaZze

Great guide! I was wondering since i cant find this answer anywhere online if I can get my mount count up +1 for buying Champions Treadblade even though I already have the horde equivalent. Please answer me back because this will help me get my 300 mount the next couple weeks if it indeed does count for mount progression.

Comment by ishirra

Perfect guide! Put it as my favourite right away, cause I know this will help me to get my achievements.

Too bad you can't add something like on the wowsite, the green 'ball' behind the mount you have already collected with your char. Would make it so much easier to see which ones you have and which ones you don't :-)

Also a little note: The Bloodfang Cocoon costs 2.000.000 gold, not 200.000 ;-)

Comment by Siusha

sorry but no-one metion it on the priest classmount is named the shaman classmount the pries has High Priest's Lightsworn Seeker/high-priests-lightsworn-seeker as his own mound . nice job on a good guide i kept it a bookmark.

Comment by RedrixLink

Don't wanna hurry you up or anything, just wondering if you will keep updating this guide with the mounts from 7.3.2 and upcoming patches, for example mounts from Antorus raid and stuff, thanks :)